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Vores tidligere kollega Lars Ole Andersen har netop fået udgivet sin ph.d.-afhandling, som han skrev her på museet. Det er blevet til bogen Før placeboeffekten -Indbildningskraftens virkning i 1800-tallets medicin, der udkom d. 7/1 2011 på Museum Tusculanums Forlag. Bogen gennemgår placeboeffektens medicinske historie; fra de første kontrollerede forsøg i 1700-tallet til de mere kritiske diskussioner i […]

Dette sære navn er den engelske betegnelse for en gammel opskrift på et godt helbred.
I middelalder og renæssance hvor latin var det fælles sprog, var den kendt som ”sex non naturales” (seks ikke naturlige), men ideen går helt tilbage antikken og udformedes af den græske læge Galen (129 e.Kr. – ca. 216).

Medicinsk Museion søger en museumsinspektør til udvikling af webbaseret biomedicinsk forskningskommunikation (AC-stilling). For at komme på tale skal du have en universitetsuddannelse på kandidatniveau inden for sundhedsvidenskab, humanbiologi, biokemi, farmaci eller tilsvarende life science-fag, samt dokumenteret erfaring med og interesse for internetbaseret kommunikation, herunder gennem sociale webmedier. Baggrunden for stillingen er oprettelsen af det nye Marie […]

Medical Museion is looking for a new academic member of staff who would like to develop our web-based biomedical science communication. You must have a science background (medicine, human biology, biochemistry etc.) + experience with, and interest in, web-based communication, especially through social web media. You must be able to communicate in both English and Danish. See the announcement here: http://www.museionblog.dk/vi-s%c3%b8ger-en-specialist-i-webbaseret-forskningskommunikation.

I’ve always been pretty tired of identity museums, like the politically correct and historically incorrect National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC. As Edward Rothstein ends his critical analysis of identity museums in The New York Times the other day: The Enlightenment had its limitations, of course. But it also shaped the great […]

The Scientist has listed its choice of top ten biomedical innovations in 2010. Things like the first single-molecule real-time sequencer from Pacific Biosciences, a handheld automated cell counter from EMD Millipore, and eight other smart technical gadgets and methods, which will surely speed up research. But will they also speed up the global economy? The Scientist seems to believe so: As the global economy […]

Glem ikke at tænde for DR2 Deadline i aften. Vores egen psykiatrihistoriske specialist Jesper skal tale med Adam Holm.

“Schenken heisst Anderen etwas von dir zu geben”. Museionblog ønsker alle sine læsere en God Jul og et rigtigt Godt Nyt År. (tak til Roger Cooter, UCL, for julekortet vi har stjålet billedet fra)

“Schenken heisst Anderen etwas von dir zu geben” (to give means to give something of yourself to others): Biomedicine on Display wishes all our readers a merry xmas and a very happy new year. (thanks to Roger Cooter, UCL, for the xmas card we’ve borrowed this image from)

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One of my favourite fellow bloggers, medical photographer Øystein Horgmo, has just written about how he was recently invited to document a family taking farewell of a young father in an intensive care unit. It’s a moving story. But what actually caught my interest was this painting (by medical doctor Joseph Dwaihy and artist Sara Dykstra), which Øystein uses the illustrate the story. Based on a photograph from the […]

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